Lust

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

“You shall not commit adultery.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. — read the full passage →

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. — read the full passage →

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.